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Living Learning Loving a new book especially for moms who are parenting alone

Living Learning Loving Lessons of Insight & Encouragement on the Path of Motherhood by Gail Cawley Showalter    

Top 10 Things You Should Do When You Become Separated

A Shared Post by Krista Smith This is the beginning of a 10 blog series that will briefly explain the top 10 things you should do when you become separated. I hope you find them useful and helpful. I hope you know that I only know these things because I have been there and I […]

How Lonely are You on Valentine’s Day?

Valentine’s Day Can be Lonely Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great deal about child development and how to handle kids. She is […]

Woman in red listening to woman in black

Lean on Each Other in Troubled Times

Lean on Each Other in Troubled Times I was reading a Proverbs 31 devotional this morning and saw something that I had never really focused on before. We have committed to memory and frequently quote the scripture “I can do all this through him [Christ] who gives me strength.” (Philippians 4:13 NIV). It is certainly […]

Alice with Mad Hatter

Are You Confused and Living in Wonderland?

Alice was confused. Are you? God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.- I Corinthians 14:33 KJV Graphic Layout by Laurie Harris, SMORE Board Member

Black woman contemplating

Can You “Let It Go?”

  Is the Grass Always Greener? I recently sat in on the last two sessions of a women’s Bible study which were focused on a book called “Let It Go” by Karen Ehman (http://www.karenehman.com/about-karen/). I haven’t read the book, but I hope to since what I heard from Karen’s video in those two study sessions […]

African American graduate in blue gown

Graduation Time Again-Would You Like to Receive a Diploma?

  Related posts: Baby Steps You Can Graduate Again It’s that time of year again. Students are finishing a degree after many long years of study and hard, very hard work. Single mothers who return to school, whether for a four year or two year degree or another certification have made more than the customary […]

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Discover Personal Strength in Solitude

Are you Lonely? Related posts: Lessons from Loneliness, Creativity in Solitude There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Single mothers often experience acute loneliness. Lonely when they wake up in the morning. Lonely when they see other couples so happy together. Lonely when making decisions for the household. Lonely when climbing into […]

Are you in a valley?

Are you walking through a personal valley? “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery-there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” -Rick Warren  

Messages From the Tough Old Bird with a Soft Spot for Single Moms

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